I am a cybersecurity professional who gets consulted on travel policy and my professional opinion is that travel to the US is not currently worth the risk for most non-US persons
15.01.2026 04:58 β π 243 π 69 π¬ 3 π 3@jburrell.bsky.social
Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society. Documenting American misogyny from afar. Currently based in Yokohama (GMT +9).
I am a cybersecurity professional who gets consulted on travel policy and my professional opinion is that travel to the US is not currently worth the risk for most non-US persons
15.01.2026 04:58 β π 243 π 69 π¬ 3 π 3If youβre in the planning stages of a conference intended to take place in the USβ¦move it. Donβt do it.
15.01.2026 06:36 β π 230 π 47 π¬ 2 π 1Imagine your job consisting of the angriest people you've ever seen in your entire life yelling at you 24/7 and throwing bottles of piss in your car while you battle the subzero elements they don't even bat an eyelash about.
Imagine the toll that takes on your psyche. May they never find peace.
I keep hearing from educated, informed people that they have no idea how bad things are in Minneapolis.
This is because too many people get their political news from the New York Times. That is a mistake! Unless they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king. Drop NYT Politics.
look by brutal government tyranny the right meant student loan forgiveness or subsidies for health insurance or helping American companies produce electric & renewable technologies, not mere jackbooted thugs executing mothers in the street for caring too much about brown neighbors
15.01.2026 03:01 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I was told over and over by Republicans that the entire point of 2A was for Americans to defend themselves against brutal government tyranny. Thatβs what we have! And by the grace of an amazing populace they havenβt asserted that right.
15.01.2026 02:55 β π 68 π 11 π¬ 2 π 1The people of Minneapolis have shown the patience of Jesus to remain peaceful in the face of unconscionable illegal brutality
15.01.2026 02:52 β π 236 π 43 π¬ 4 π 1Ciji Graham, a Black woman wearing glasses, holds an infant boy wearing a black hoodie.
1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend.
She's also the 7th case weβve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care.
This is her story.
"This long ago stopped being a campaign of organized immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government."
15.01.2026 02:25 β π 758 π 208 π¬ 14 π 4President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg
1/ I recently wrote about Frances PerkinsβFDRβs Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her eraβs version of ICE.π§΅
Those damn women are acting like they're citizens in a democracy.
13.01.2026 22:44 β π 2148 π 528 π¬ 185 π 30I was once pulled over driving to work. I hadnβt done anything. But this cop pulled me over and was, I cannot stress enough, FURIOUS. Shouting at me to not grab my phone, to not even LOOK at it, to look at HIM.
He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...
I canβt emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Goodβs murder.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
White supremacist talking points.
No dog whistles.
We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are whatβs paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
13.01.2026 01:20 β π 62365 π 22423 π¬ 922 π 1236He spits out with contempt: "Women are the kind of people, people come out of" and it takes no talent to do that. Evangelical pastors that want women's right to vote to be reversed. Pete Hegseth retweeted this sentiment. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/08/u...
12.01.2026 23:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
11.01.2026 15:19 β π 24697 π 7338 π¬ 769 π 326They keep saying this βdidnβt you learn your lesson?β bit like murdering Renee Good was a flex and weβre all supposed to bow to their dominance.
12.01.2026 02:24 β π 1177 π 284 π¬ 24 π 8TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WEβLL KILL YOU
11.01.2026 21:19 β π 2831 π 701 π¬ 79 π 14"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
11.01.2026 17:04 β π 12706 π 3276 π¬ 341 π 66New from me: Let's talk about Minnesota, Trump's occupation of American cities, and how we need to rethink some things. www.altrightdelete.news/p/in-cold-bl...
11.01.2026 23:01 β π 54 π 21 π¬ 1 π 2It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Screenshot from Zuckerberg data mining website Image of lady in pink hat faces armed fed agents Text overlay: OPINION DELUDED WINE MOMS ARE COMMITTING DEADLY CRIMES, NOT SIMPLY 'PROTESTING' NEWS Fox News * β’ Follow 27mβ’ STOP THE MADNESS: "What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime," writes David Marcus. SR7 FOX NEWS channel You and 10.9K others 3.7K comments 1.1K shares Haha Comment Share
Ladies you βZumba-edβ too hard!
11.01.2026 20:42 β π 1830 π 278 π¬ 204 π 476βIβm not an activistβ
The Life We Are Living⦠This collective experience will activate us all
The behavioral explanation is that this is all a bunch of unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women. But the institutional and political economy explanation is that people whose politics are based in unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women shouldn't have guns or authority
10.01.2026 00:56 β π 225 π 44 π¬ 6 π 1Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: βThe message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didnβt obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.β
09.01.2026 20:15 β π 23378 π 7645 π¬ 259 π 283white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a βfucking bitchβ
10.01.2026 00:08 β π 2803 π 593 π¬ 25 π 20rightwingers always call women βtoo emotionalβ but renee good states sheβs not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a βfucking bitchβ after sheβs dead
09.01.2026 21:51 β π 8686 π 1623 π¬ 74 π 29When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere.
This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.